Abstract: The flooding point and hold-up of the dispersed phase in an extraction column with reciprocating-sieve plates of 32 mm inside diameter and 1960 mm effective column height have been investigated under thefollowing conditions:Percent perforation of the plates 40%,53.5% and 63.7%,diameters of perforatedholes 7.8,9.0 and 9.8 mm,and distances between plates 20 and 40 mm respectively.Experiments werecarried out with three different liquid-liquid systems covering a rather wide range of physical properties.The relative velocity of the two phases passing through the perforations of the plates is consideredin the present work to be related to the work done by the oscillating plates in the column on unit massof liquid in unit time.Therefore the flooding velocity and hold-up in extraction column with reci-procating sieve plates should be related to A~2F~3 instead of AF as reported before.Equations weredeveloped to correlate the experimental data of flooding point and hold-up respectively.